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In the heart of Taklamakan, an immense cemetery exists in a legendary location. A great mound covered with pillars, this burial ground, contains more than three hundred graves, none of which have ever been scientifically examined. Despite the extreme climactic conditions, a Sino-Japanese team succeeds in cutting through the mystery of 'the devil's city" and discovers that the dead had come from far away to die in what was a veritable Garden of Eden. Sometimes we have to go a long way to solve the mystery of certain civilisations.
So long unknown to Europeans, the Taklamakan region held all its secrets. By evoking the first expeditions and the discovery of the splendor of these religious sites, this episode attempts to show something more than a religion, but a philosophy of life: Buddhism.
This episode of our investigation uses a 3D reconstitution of a fresco that disappeared some hundred years ago to tell both the story of a century of exploration in Central Asia and to recount a thousand years of work of painters willing to devote their lives to express the fervor of their devotion.
Could the persistent draught which disfigured a region just until then verdant, be explained and combated, in retracing the existence of an immense fortress abandoned since the Middle Ages? That is the belief of a scientific team set up at edge of the Gobi desert.
But before the scientists can create a model of climatic changes, they will have to elucidate the mystery of Kara Khoto, the citadel in the sands
